Vice President Yemi Osinbajo will chair a committee to provide overall guidance for the implementation of the policy. The Nigerian government has approved a new policy to tackle growing poverty in the country, the presidency has said. The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday extensively debated the issue and sought ways to solve the problem, […]
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Confirmed by the Spanish prime minister, Western media reports that two Spanish filmmakers and the Irish president of a conservation non-governmental organization (NGO) were murdered in Burkina Faso near the border with Benin on April 26. Roberto Fraile and David Beriain were in Burkina Faso working on a documentary about poaching. They were accompanied by […]
A taskforce established to review Kenya’s draft data protection regulations Tuesday started a three-day virtual public participation. At the same time, the deadline for the submission of comments on the said regulations has been extended to May 11, 2021. The taskforce, headed by Data Protection Commissioner Immaculate Kassait, will spend three days – between Tuesday […]
Somalia’s Lower House has been thrust in the spotlight, again, after President Mohamed Farmaajo announced he will ask the chamber to cancel an extension of his term. It was a climb down from his previous stance in which he defended the decision to extend his term by two years, in spite of opposition from his […]
A Local human rights lobby group Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) has condemned the continued incarceration and persecution of MDC Alliance female activists, Joanna Mamombe and Cecilia Chimbiri who are still in remand to date. In a statement, CiZC Gender Committee, Chairperson Margaret Mutsamvi said the two are victims of persecution by prosecution and their […]
Opposition MDC-Alliance party youth leader Obey Sithole on Tuesday 27 April 2021 spent his second night in police detention at Harare Central Police Station after some Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officers released him from police cells yesterday morning to appear at Harare Magistrates Court but later made a volte-face. While Sithole and his lawyer Obey […]
A consortium of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in the country have condemned the proposal of the Patriotic Bill saying it is an attempt aimed at silencing and shrinking the civic space. The late ZANU-PF legislator for Mberengwa South, Alum Mpofu, moved a motion in the National Assembly for the enactment of the proposed Patriotic Bill. […]
RESIDENTS of the Sky settlement at Oshakati are outraged at the Oshakati Town Council’s decision to relocate them to Onawa informal settlement, where they say they will not have access to sanitation. Earlier this month Oshakati’s mayor, Leonard Hango, commissioned the relocation of 533 families from Sky to Onawa informal settlement. At the time Hango […]
Deputy minister of agriculture Anna Shiweda says the criticism that is often directed at politicians, top government officials and their relatives for owning mining licences or fishing quotas is unfair and unconstitutional. This, Shiweda said, is because politicians and their relatives are equally Namibians and enjoy the same constitutional rights to own and dispose of […]
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) will convene an Extraordinary Troika Summit of the Organ on Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation in Mozambique. The Extraordinary Organ Troika Summit to be held on Thursday, 29 April 2021, will receive a report of the Technical Assessment Team that was deployed, following the decisions of the SADC Extraordinary […]
At least five people have been killed during banned protests against Chad’s new military junta led by Mahamat Deby, son of veteran ruler Idriss Deby Itno who was killed in an attack earlier this month. France has condemned the repression and called for the council to ensure a peaceful transition. Deby’s 37-year-old son Mahamat, who […]
For the plans by the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Ibrahim Attahiru, to rebuild the Nigerian Army to be effective, stakeholders want him to reinstate some of the 38 senior officers whose careers were truncated in 2016 by his predecessor. In line with his promise to rebuild the army and improve on the morale […]
Six counties were short-changed in the proposed distribution of 70 extra constituencies by the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) given their population, a parliamentary committee report has revealed. And eight other counties are overrepresented and should have lost a constituency each, said the joint report of the Justice and Legal Affairs committees of the National Assembly […]
SADC is committed to achieving lasting peace, security, reconciliation and development in Mozambique with the ongoing Extraordinary Troika Summit, which will culminate in the meeting of Heads of State and Government tomorrow, an expression of the region’s resolve to tackle insurgency in the country. The extraordinary Sadc Organ on Politics, Defence and Security Cooperation meeting, […]
Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Monica Mutsvangwa has sent her condolences to the Kurwa family following the death of veteran journalist Innocent Kurwa in a road accident. In a statement yesterday, Minister Mutsvangwa said she learnt of the untimely death of the veteran journalist with sadness and profound sorrow. Kurwa was involved in a […]
Matthew Page, an associate fellow of Chatham House, London, U.K., says education and real estate sectors provide opportunities for Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs) in Nigeria to launder money. Matthew Page, an associate fellow of London-based Chatham House, an international affairs think tank, has advised investigators to focus on real estate and education sectors, when tracking […]
AT LEAST 200 Bulawayo MDC Alliance supporters are reported to have reversed their recent decision to defect to the Douglas Mwonzora-led MDC-T and retraced their footsteps to the Nelson Chamisa-led outfit. The MDC Alliance claims the defections took place last Sunday and the returnees accused Mwonzora of indirectly forcing them to join the ruling Zanu […]
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Tuesday allotted US$36 million towards economic productivity amid notable inflation rates decline since the auction system’s inception last year. A trading update released at the close of trading this week shows that a total of US$31.3 million was allotted on the main auction platform. As usual, priority went towards raw […]